Dumanoise v. Townsend

This action was brought to recover a balance claimed by plaintiff to be due to him from defendants for hauling black-walnut logs, and loading black-walnut lumber upon a car. The plaintiff claimed a joint liability on the part of defendants. Townsend defended, denying all liability.

The plaintiff introduced testimony which tended to show that defendants were partners in the purchase of certain black-walnut logs of different farmers in the vicinity of Davison, a station on the Chicago & Grand Trunk Railway, where a saw-mill was located, and in the pianufacture of such logs into lumber, and the…